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Originally Posted by basjoos
But in this situation its easy enough to have 5 or 10 gallons stored in a couple of gas cans in the shed behind the house, plus with a gas car with its typically longer range you are less likely to be getting home from your commute running on fumes.
So I take it from the lack of responses that no one has been in the position of trying to recharge their nearly dead EV batteries from a home or portable generator?
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I have not charge my EV on a generator but doing so would not be difficult. It would be horribly inefficient and rather pointless but it could be done. The internal charger in my Spark maxes out at 3.3 KW so you would need a generator larger than that.
If I came home to a house with no power I would park the car just like I normally do (I charge at work not home). If my work is without power there isn't much point in me going. If I charged at home and was without power for days and my place of work had power: I would drive my wife's car and drop her off on the way to my work.
Something else that is different between gas and electric vehicle is drivers of EV's don't wait until their battery is depleted and then recharge. I driver of a Bolt isn't going to drive to work for a week and then charge. They will top off daily. Someone getting home with an almost dead battery is pushing the range of their vehicle to the max. I can drive to work and back two days on a charge but I have only done that once to confirm I could do it and get a better idea of what the actual range of my car. (About 95 miles instead of the 82 EPA rating)
It also comes down to planning my car purchase on what I do 95-99% of the time not the random outliers. What if my power went out? Doesn't happen enough to worry about. If it happened enough I would get a generator but for now I have my Prius and an inverter. I've never used the inverter as I haven't lost power.